Planning and Configuring Exchange Online

Configuring Office 365 tenant and its applications is just the start of a successful deployment. Learn about mailbox migration options, the types of mailboxes found in Exchange Online, and how to create, manage, archive, and secure mailbox contents.

Course info

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(14)

Level

Intermediate

Updated

Nov 3, 2017

Duration

2h 5m

Description

Exchange Online is a frequently underutilized tool in the workplace. In this course, Planning and Configuring Exchange Online, you'll learn a powerful set of tools that allow you to access your email from anywhere, anytime, and from almost any device by configuring synchronization options and remote access methods. First, you'll explore the different mailbox migration methods used to migrate existing mailboxes to Exchange Online. Next, you'll delve into the different types of mailboxes, including individual, resource, and shared mailboxes, along with distribution groups and contacts. Then, you'll learn how to manage the lifecycle of the content stored in mailboxes, by looking at the use of archive policies, retention policies, and tags. Finally, you'll discover how to secure the inbound and outbound email messages and protect the content contained within the mailboxes, by exploring permission delegation, anti-malware, anti-spam, legal holds, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and the Exchange Online Protection Center. By the end of this course, you'll have a thorough understanding of how to plan and configure Exchange to meet your individual and company needs.

About the author

Brian Alderman is a Microsoft MVP, and has his Master's in Computer Information Systems. Since 1995, he has held several Microsoft certifications that currently include; MCT, MCSE for SharePoint, MCSA for Office 365, MCITP for SQL Server(R), MCSA and MCSE for Windows Server(R), and also his PMP certification. Brian's publications include SQL Server 2000 Administration, SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Companion and Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Administration Inside Out, and he is an active speaker at SharePoint Industry conferences including SharePoint Saturday's, SPLive, DevIntersection, SharePoint Fest, and Microsoft Ignite.

Section Introduction Transcripts

Course OverviewHello everyone, my name is Brian Alderman, and welcome to my course, Planning and Configuring Exchange Online. I'm a Microsoft MVP, and MCT, which is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, for 20 consecutive years, so I have done lots of training. I'm an author of four published books. The latest two are Microsoft Press SharePoint books, I'm a speaker at several SharePoint and Office 365 conferences around the world, and I'm a consultant at my own company called MicroTechPoint. As an IT pro, configuring the Office 365 tenant and its applications like Exchange Online is just the beginning of a successful deployment. The next big step is to ensure that users have access to Exchange online from anywhere, and from any device. It's also important to understand how to secure the content, protect the users, and manage the interaction between the exchange Online users. In this course, we're going to introduce and discuss migration methods used to migrate existing mailboxes to Exchange Online; how to provide users remote access to their mailboxes from multiple interfaces; ways to ensure the inbound, outbound, and stored information is secure; and options for configuring Exchange Online components including individual, group, resource, and shared mailboxes. By the end of this course, you'll know the migration methods available for migrating existing mailboxes to Exchange Online, how to configure, control, and manage the different types of mailboxes, and how to protect that mailbox data. Before beginning this course, you should be familiar with Office 365 and have an Office 365 tenant that you can use to perform these Exchange Online configuration options as you learn them. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn about Exchange Online with the Planning and Configuring Exchange Online course here at Pluralsight.